Annibale Cois
Senior Specialist Scientist at the South African Medical Research Council
Biosketch
Dr Annibale Cois is an Epidemiologist and Biostatistician. His background includes Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering (University of Cagliari, Italy) and Public Health (University of Cape Town), and a PhD in Public Health (University of Cape Town).
His current research interests focus primarily on the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases and associated risk factors in low- and middle-income countries and the application of advanced statistical methods for the joint analysis of multiple heterogeneous data sources.
Recent works include the application of latent variables techniques to the estimation and modelling of measurement error in anthropometric characteristics in large-scale surveys; the joint analysis of multiple datasets to recover long-term trends in blood pressure, body mass index and other cardiovascular risk factors; the study of seasonal patterns of cardiovascular risk factors in the South African population and their socioeconomic correlates; the application of Bayesian estimation methods for the study of population pattern of alcohol consumption.
He holds an honorary position as a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health of the University of Cape Town and he is a Visiting Researcher in the Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD) in the Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences at Greenwich University.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7014-6510
WEBSITE: https://annibalecois.github.io/
